Analysis shows the government, which has committed to a ‘gas-led recovery’, has failed to properly account for methane’s effect on global heating.
Australia’s greenhouse gas accounting…
The Tesla big battery at Hornsdale in South Australia is entering the final testing of its expanded capacity, and is achieving some significant new records and milestones that would be expected when…
Review recommends ‘trailing liability’, where owners remain liable for decommissioning sites after selling them.
Energy giant Woodside Petroleum is facing calls to pay more than $200m to clean up a…
Australia’s rooftop solar market has defied the disruption caused by Covid-19, setting new installation records in the month of July, and pushing Australia past 2.5 million total rooftop solar…
The Australian government has announced a A$190 million (US$130 million)investment in the nation's first Recycling Modernization Fund, with the aim of transforming the country's waste and recycling…
Human-caused sea level rise likely caused eight out of 10 floods in the region between 1970 and 2015, a study finds.
Flooding in localised areas around Sydney will happen almost every week by the…
Australia's national science agency has called for leadership on climate change, amid concerns the public -and the public service - do not fully understand the risks it posed.
In a technical report…
Nearly 3 billion animals were killed or displaced by Australia’s devastating bushfire season of 2019 and 2020, according to scientists who have revealed for the first time the scale of the impact on…
Activists protest at Samsung Electronics store in Sydney over debt purchase by affiliate Samsung Securities.
A company in the Samsung Group invested in Adani’s Australian coal operation last year in…
Exclusive: Australia’s big four banks have loaned $7bn to 33 new or expansionary fossil fuel projects between 2016 and 2019, analysis finds
Since the Paris agreement was signed, Australia’s big four…
A plan to create the first universally recognised list of species on Earth has prompted hopes of an end to centuries of disagreement and confusion over how to classify the world’s library of life.…
Frequency of heatwaves and cumulative intensity has risen through the decades, research finds.
Heatwaves have increased in both length and frequency in nearly every part of the world since the 1950s…
More money and emissions spent on projects than in storing carbon
Australia is pondering carbon capture and storage despite poor outcomes from the only two projects operating world-wide and a lack…
In this extract from her Quarterly Essay, Judith Brett says mining has offered the Nationals a way to supplement their declining agricultural base
At the gala dinner in March this year to celebrate…
Anglo-Australian mining company BHP said it would pause plans to destroy 40 Aboriginal heritage sites as part of its expansion of an iron ore mine in Western Australia (WA).
More electricity was produced from renewable energy sources Australia-wide than gas generation for the first time in 2019, as a surge in wind and solar generation also pushes the share of electricity…
Report also warns Australia will experience more extreme fire seasons due to climate crisis.
The amount of pristine tropical rainforest lost across the globe increased last year, as the equivalent…
Experimental cell using the potentially game-changing material perovskite passes a series of heat and humidity tests
A team of Australian researchers are claiming a world first in a global race to…
More electricity was produced from renewable energy sources Australia-wide than gas generation for the first time in 2019, as a surge in wind and solar generation also pushes the share of electricity…